Greetings from Takaka
The witch and I are in Golden Bay for the weekend, having very many adventures and with limited wifi, so you’ll have to wait until I get home to hear them, and to see all the photos.
This is what central Christchurch looks like these days – still a mass of cordon fences, road works, half-demolished buildings, and vast open spaces that can feel pretty desolate: On the plus side, there’s cool artwork (official and unofficial), and a lot of the empty demolition sites have been grassed over, which makes some parts…
If you looked at my list of books read so far this year, you’d think I’d abandoned the idea of paper completely. Eight e-books, two audiobooks, and only two traditional print books. The situation is not quite as dire as all that though – part of the reason for the scarcity of real books is…
Having been unsuccessful at figuring out which wire to wiggle to get my second hard drive working again, I gave in and paid a professional to look at it. And it turns out that the reason my wire-wiggling wasn’t working this time was because the hard drive had entirely failed. So, unless I want to…
ot that I’d ever complain, but we get a ridiculous amount of annual leave. Five weeks a year, plus an extra four days at Christmas (on top of the statutory holidays), and another day at Easter. So effectively six weeks of holiday a year. Which is seriously cool, but also sometimes difficult to actually use…
ime is rapidly running out on my holidays, but I’m kind of looking forward to going back to work – this year is going to be full of all sorts of interesting challenges which I want to get stuck into. I could very easily get used to this leisurely lifestyle though 🙂 Not that the…
I’d like to formally introduce you to: Parsnips and Pushkin Not quite the original names we’d planned on, but these ones somehow fit better (though don’t ask me to explain exactly why!). A few more photos, just because: I would have lots more, but not long after that one of the kittens managed to pull…